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 | | 4/6/07 Potential World
Record Turkey
Taken in Texas After he saw the beard, he knew it was something special. After making a few calls, he took the bird to Savage Deer Processing in Hooks, an official Texas Parks and Wildlife check station (hunters harvesting eastern wild turkeys in Texas must check them in at an approved station). Owner Tina Savage measured the bird.
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11/8/07
National Geographic,
November 2007
Hunters: For Love of the Land
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/
Many waterfowl species may not survive if not for hunters. Hunters have paid 700-million in duck stamps, purchasing 5.2-million acres of wildlife refuge. Hunters pay 250-million annually in taxes for firearms and ammo, much of which is used in wildlife conservation, both for game and non-game species. Hunter’s make-up 5% of the adult American population, but the number of hunters drop each year, and youth are not filling in the gap.As we become more urbanized, we loose connection with the natural world, and the further we get away from the wild the less we understand it.
Positive Game Plan The Changing Face of Deer Hunting
In a strange new twist of nature and adaptability,
moose now apparently can take advantage of human
development and use it as a shield against predators.
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Did you ever want to shoot your limit of ducks or geese with one shot? Then a Punt Gun is what you are looking for…though not legal in the US, this bit of English history is fascinating and this video demonstrates the gun’s power. Read More About The Punt Shotgun A punt gun is a type of extremely large shotgun used in the 19th and 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations. Punt guns were usually custom-designed and so varied widely, but could have bore diameters up to 2 inches. A single shot could kill a whole flock of waterfowl resting on the water’s surface. They were too big to hold and the recoil so large that they were mounted directly on the punts (boats) used for hunting, hence their name. Hunters would maneuver their punts quietly into line and range of the flock using poles or oars to avoid startling them. To improve efficiency hunters could work in fleets of up to around ten punts.
In the United States, this practice depleted stocks of wild waterfowl and by the 1860s most states had banned the practice. The Lacey Act of 1889 banned the transport of wild game across state lines, and the practice of market hunting was outlawed by a series of federal laws in 1918. There are few punt guns remaining. Comment submitted by > Conrad N. Arnold 1/26/07:
There are still some punt guns around Dorchester County. One can be seen in a local Museum. Stories have it that on occasion, the punt gun which was mounted in the skiff would recoil so much that it literally blew the stern out of the boat. Not a good day for that waterfowler. I saw a demonstration once on the shore where about a full pound of blackpowder was used to fire the punt gun. The material used for shot could include bolts, nails or anything else that could be loaded and fired. |
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